DAMN
i just finished heavenly creatures, and i can safely say that it is now my second favorite movie, unseating terror firmer from its 7 year stranglehold on number two, just beat out by natural born killers of course (that will NEVER change)
interesting enough, as the true story of natural born killers is one of my favorite murder narratives (all of my favorite movies involve murder: nbk, this one, terror firmer, american psycho, chinatown, unforgiven, etc), and so is the true story of pauline parker and juliet hulme, upon which this film was based.
it was fucking amazing
kate winslet and melanie lynskey (my second favorite character on two and a half men) are perfectly charming and terrifying as a couple of young, infirm girls experiencing their first love, and creating a fantasy world to which they almost entirely retreat
if you know anything about the story, or if you kind of understood the first scene, you know that the lovely young ladies off melanie's mom when she is perceived as the one to blame for the girls' impending separation. the murder scene was literally the most chilling i have ever seen, and the buildup was exquisite
all the diary entries that lynskey narrates with come straight out of pauline parker's actual diaries, giving the film a more personal and terrifying feeling
the scenes with the animated clay figures from pauline and juliet's imaginary land of borovnia are breathtaking. the high drama of the music and the surreal shooting create such a perfect ambiance. this fucking film is perfect.
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